Career
Experience
5+ years building cloud-native SaaS at Citrix, spanning multi-cloud infrastructure, IaC tooling, compliance, and billing systems.
Work history
Timeline
MBA · Tepper School of Business + Master of Software Engineering · SCS
EducationAug 2026 – Dec 2028 (anticipated)
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 15213
- Joint master degree program combining business strategy and advanced software engineering.
- Tepper School of Business — MBA Program
- School of Computer Science — Master of Software Engineering
Relevant coursework
Senior Software Engineer
WorkSep 2025 - Aug 2026
Citrix Business Unit · Cloud Software Group · Nanjing, China
- Led design and development of the billing and cost-prediction system for Citrix Platform Flex, the next-generation managed desktop platform, enabling enterprise customers (e.g., Wipro) to deploy on Azure, AWS or GCP with minimal configuration at minimum cost.
- Automated Terraform configuration generation for existing enterprise environments (BlackRock, Barclays), moving customers from manual provisioning to Infrastructure as Code and enabling rapid redeployment for disaster recovery.
Software Engineer II
WorkJan 2023 - Aug 2025
Citrix Business Unit · Cloud Software Group · Fort Lauderdale, FL & Nanjing, China
- Extended Citrix DaaS beyond Azure onto AWS WorkSpaces Core and GCP, broadening platform choice for enterprise customers including Mastercard and Greenberg Traurig.
- Drove security hardening that earned FedRAMP Moderate certification, a prerequisite for serving U.S. federal agencies, and led the roadmap toward FedRAMP High.
- Led development of the open-source Terraform Provider for Citrix, giving on-premises and cloud customers a standardized path to adopt Infrastructure as Code.
- Prototyped an LLM-based log-analysis tool and presented it at an internal hackathon, inspiring product security teams to integrate AI into pre-deployment artifact scans.
- Automated CI/CD workflows in TeamCity and Splunk monitoring pipelines, reducing manual operational toil.
Software Engineer
WorkJul 2021 - Dec 2022
Citrix Systems, Inc. · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Led migration of three projects from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET Core, improving performance by 50%+ and enabling cross-platform deployment that cut infrastructure cost by 80%.
- Built internal tools and automated Splunk dashboards for monthly customer-bill validation and product-health monitoring, now adopted company-wide to manage dashboards and alerts as code.
- Delivered features for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and DaaS Standard for Azure, eliminating 200+ bugs to improve product efficiency and security.
- Refactored shared libraries and base services, delivering measurable performance and reliability gains across multiple product teams.
Teaching Assistant — Computer Science
WorkSep 2020 - May 2021
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology · Terre Haute, IN
- Supported instruction for CSSE 280 (Introduction to Web Programming); held office hours and provided feedback on assignments.
Software Engineer Intern
WorkJun 2020 - Aug 2020
Citrix Systems, Inc. · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Developed new product features that contributed to significant reductions in operating costs.
Software Developer Intern
WorkMar 2019 - May 2020
Rose-Hulman Ventures · Terre Haute, IN
- Modernized a 22-year-old labor union web management platform by migrating to .NET Core MVC, improving security, maintainability, and developer experience.
B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics — Double Major
EducationSep 2017 – May 2021
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology · Terre Haute, Indiana, USA 47803
- GPA 3.50 / 4.00 · Minors: Entrepreneurial Studies, Data Science
- Rose-Hulman Programming Team
- RISE Business Club
- Sigma Nu Fraternity, Beta Upsilon Chapter
- ESCALATE Entrepreneurship Program
Relevant coursework
Senior High — A-Level Program
Education2014 – 2017
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China · Beijing, China
- International Curriculum Center (ICC)
Junior High
Education2011 – 2014
Tsinghua University High School · Beijing, China